we are weeks away from someone suggesting that stock prices have human rights.

I argue why despite the concerns we should not discard NOTA in an RCV system & advocate for measures to prevent political parties from exploiting NOTA to dilute RCV’s +ve impacts, emphasizing the need for comprehensive voter education before any electoral reform is considered or implemented

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I analyse how NOTA could potentially undermine RCV’s benefits, particularly in polarized contexts, using data from five 2024 Lok Sabha constituencies.

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Is NOTA compatible with a Ranked-Choice Voting System? Ashwani Kumar Singh*IntroductionThe allocation of seats in the House of the People to the States and the division of each State into territorial constituencies (hereinafter referred to as the ‘delimit...

I explore the complex relationship between the NOTA (None of the Above) voting option and Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) systems, assessing the viability of adopting the latter in India.

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having fun as I said but I'll be honest the idea of building everything back up is overwhelming - I followed thousands of accounts across an absolutely insane array of subjects on twt

Prof. Nick Barber and Prof. Rochana Bajpai speak on Ideology and Hegemony in Constitutional Imagination at this Law and Democracy Network event on 20 November at 12:30 pm GMT. Please join us in person or sign up for the Zoom link.

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I see many lists here. Where is the list of constitutional scholars?? 🤔

Excellent thread summarising the Attorney General's Bingham Centre lecture on rule of law. Notable among other things for the strength of his endorsement of the HRA & ECHR. Interesting also on secondary legislation - and the recalibration of 'legal risk' within the Government Legal Service.

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Litmus test.

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+ I write on the nature of Article 370 of the Constitution and the Constituent Power of Jammu & Kashmir

"What Art 370(3) did was recognise the constituent power of Jammu & Kashmir. The constituent power could not possibly have ceased to exist on the dissolution of the State Constituent Assembly."

A screenshot of the title of a blog post I wrote. The post is titled 'On the Constituent Power of Jammu and Kashmir'.

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The Supreme Court of India - on 11 Dec - upheld the validity of the abrogation of Article 370 [which was the bedrock for the constitutional relationship b/w the Union and the State of Jammu & Kashmir]

I respond to some of the judicial findings +

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The Safe Access Zones Bill Reference [2022] UKSC 32: clearing the fog of proportionality? (2023) 74(3) NILQ 619: https://nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/nilq/article/view/1084/908

In the Safe Access Zones Reference, the UKSC turned its attention to proportionality and what it meant. Did it manage to clear up any confusion? Not quite. My analysis of the judgment is out in the NI Legal Quarterly

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